The true moral is in a true free market patents are pointless. It is a legal monopoly on a single item/invention/drug/gene/...
Why the fuck does this exist anyway? The bullshit arguement that people won't invent without patent protection is weak at best. It's a good thing software patents didn't exist in the 80's or where would the software industry be today (not to mention MS)?
Boredom. Plus sticking it to MS. Just think if someone could easily hack all the bsd/linux servers in the wild, they would cause much more havoc. However it is non-trivial to hack compared to reverse engineering the MS patches and comparing the old and new code.
Lol, 2 months salary is your wifes wedding ring. You should save as much as possible. A minimum of 20% plus maximizing your IRA/401k is the least one should do. Then you can put your money where your mouth is about starting your own business. Just remember like in life, underspend and overdeliver (easier said than done).
All Adobe products make you reboot if you have any of the associated libraries with their other products being accessed at the time you install the new software. You cannot have an install program remove a dll that is loaded by the OS without causing a possible kernel panic/BSOD, so either unload other adobe products (you'd be surprised what is running in the background) or reboot. Not to difficult a choice. I turn off my computer every night, guess I just don't see the need for leaving it on all the time.
Exactly. 90%+ of the cost of running my business is employees. Hardware and software, while not cheap are significantly less expensive over time.
For example: 12K Server estimated lifespan = 3 years = 4K/year 36K Support Person 1 year at 3 years runs you 108K. Not to mention the extra 6K/year in Payroll Taxes & FICA Matching or the 6K/year in insurance coverage by the company bringing the 3 year total to 144K.
Keeping hardware and software up to date to make certain your *expensive* employees can do their job is the best investment a company can make.
I have to disagree. Opening the source and documenting how the overall O/S interfaces with parts that are missing wouldn't "taint" OSS developers who had never seen that code. For example, I call X routine (which contains MS code) and returns Y data. Let the OSS people figure out how to get the expected results. This is the very reason software patents are bullshit. Granted if IBM signed IP agreements it's on them, however they can find a way around it if they so desire*.
They could re-code the parts that are from other parties. Or just strip those parts out and open it up for the OSS community to redo the missing parts (with IBM letting people know how the interfaces were used). Imagine all the great documentation they could release as well...
6502 1 MHz 16K RAM Apple II. The most amazing thing I had ever seen in my life (to that point). I remember getting a floppy disk was a big deal (singles cost $2 if I remember correctly). I'm guessing it was around 1982 as well, maybe 1983. A bit fuzzy 22 years later...
What about LBO's. The RJR deal is still studied in finance programs as very innovative. It lead to Malcom Glazier pissing off 1/2 the world with his Manchester United purchase. Lol, soccer nuts. I wish those people that have been paying next to nothing for their Man U tickets had to buy tickets to a college football event to see how much they were underpaying. Not to mention pro football. Jesus I couldn't afford them making over 60k/year.
However this is pure stupidity. The game has to have a downloaded patch to get it to work on a modded XBox. This is unlikely to fall in the hands of the average 7 year old by accident.
Did you actually read the entire article? He was saying the PC platform is a commodity, not that they were going to quit selling Macs. If you look at where the revenue of Apple is derived, you'll see branching into devices is significantly more profitable than the PC market and as such that is the future. Making crazy margins off Macs is the past (hopefully).
Amen. That's why I will always admire Vai for his amazing technical ability but so many more guitarists songs/riffs have so much more feeling than his. Hell even the songs that he has tried to make "feel" more like a non-virtuoso song comes across sterile. Satriani is one of my favorites. Although I'll always like Eddie Van Halen, SRV, Clapton, Bettencourt (yes I said it) and even Mustaine too.
Temporarily work 15 hours a day. I own my company and have projects for my clients that must be done. I can however work 0 hours a day if I so decide. I feel finishing what my customers desire is more important than becoming a 5 star manager in FIFA 2005.
Who says? Maybe girls and geeks that aren't good looking don't mix but when you are good looking and make a nice living you'd be surprised at the hotties you can find. Now if my wife would just let me have fun with them life would be interesting indeed. Having a wife actually increases the level of game play since you're not having to go out and try and score (not to say you don't have to try at home but it's not as far to drive). However owning your own company nullifies any game playing time one might have. It's all about balance. Unfortunately I'm at work right now (apparently reading slashdot instead of working) and have been here since 6:30 this morning (it's 9:18pm now).
Amazing game. One of my all time favorites. Nothing beat playing on my old Apple//e with a green screen. Then one year later I discovered girls and gaming died that day.
What's 20% of 4 Billion? 800 Million. If he got paid 200 Million he's still 600 Million short. If I were the studio I'd settle for the additional 100 Million and move on down the road.
No shit. What, they couldn't find any cocker spaniel pictures? Some crazy wolf looking dog with its teeth bared really makes me want to bring that one back from the dead.
Now if those lesbian sysadmins were hot with large breasts and loved IT guys for 3 ways I'd be set. Oh yea, nevermind. The wife would never let me do something fun like that.
Bullshit, just use *naturally* supplied energy and put the processing plants where this energy is available. A la, hydroelectric dams (northeast?), solar farms (southwest), wind farms (oklahoma), and do the processing there. We have a choice locally to use *clean* electric for a slightly higher fee, so why not use renewable energy resources to generate ethenol?
Maybe people are over reacting. Solution seems logical to me, any different ones?
That's the thing I'm not atheist. To me atheisim suffers from the same problem religion does, the unexplained. For example do you believe in spirits/ghosts? I do, having seen an indian american ghost as a small child (quite frightening).
There are morons and crazy people everywhere. Every religion is just made up bullshit to make people feel like they matter in the grand scheme of things. One big ego stroke.
Spirituality I don't have a problem with. However, religion is the root of all evil.
Just remember a kid has to be taught to be *good*, that is the purpose of societies norms & mores (religion serves this purpose too).
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The true moral is in a true free market patents are pointless. It is a legal monopoly on a single item/invention/drug/gene/...
Why the fuck does this exist anyway? The bullshit arguement that people won't invent without patent protection is weak at best. It's a good thing software patents didn't exist in the 80's or where would the software industry be today (not to mention MS)?
Boredom. Plus sticking it to MS. Just think if someone could easily hack all the bsd/linux servers in the wild, they would cause much more havoc. However it is non-trivial to hack compared to reverse engineering the MS patches and comparing the old and new code.
Lol, 2 months salary is your wifes wedding ring. You should save as much as possible. A minimum of 20% plus maximizing your IRA/401k is the least one should do. Then you can put your money where your mouth is about starting your own business. Just remember like in life, underspend and overdeliver (easier said than done).
All Adobe products make you reboot if you have any of the associated libraries with their other products being accessed at the time you install the new software. You cannot have an install program remove a dll that is loaded by the OS without causing a possible kernel panic/BSOD, so either unload other adobe products (you'd be surprised what is running in the background) or reboot. Not to difficult a choice. I turn off my computer every night, guess I just don't see the need for leaving it on all the time.
Okay I was with you until "and the unsurpassed courage of the Canadians who had already seen the horrors of war on this coast"
WTF?
Exactly. 90%+ of the cost of running my business is employees. Hardware and software, while not cheap are significantly less expensive over time.
For example:
12K Server estimated lifespan = 3 years = 4K/year
36K Support Person 1 year at 3 years runs you 108K. Not to mention the extra 6K/year in Payroll Taxes & FICA Matching or the 6K/year in insurance coverage by the company bringing the 3 year total to 144K.
Keeping hardware and software up to date to make certain your *expensive* employees can do their job is the best investment a company can make.
I have to disagree. Opening the source and documenting how the overall O/S interfaces with parts that are missing wouldn't "taint" OSS developers who had never seen that code. For example, I call X routine (which contains MS code) and returns Y data. Let the OSS people figure out how to get the expected results. This is the very reason software patents are bullshit. Granted if IBM signed IP agreements it's on them, however they can find a way around it if they so desire*.
* This is the question.
They could re-code the parts that are from other parties. Or just strip those parts out and open it up for the OSS community to redo the missing parts (with IBM letting people know how the interfaces were used). Imagine all the great documentation they could release as well...
6502 1 MHz 16K RAM Apple II. The most amazing thing I had ever seen in my life (to that point). I remember getting a floppy disk was a big deal (singles cost $2 if I remember correctly). I'm guessing it was around 1982 as well, maybe 1983. A bit fuzzy 22 years later...
What about LBO's. The RJR deal is still studied in finance programs as very innovative. It lead to Malcom Glazier pissing off 1/2 the world with his Manchester United purchase. Lol, soccer nuts. I wish those people that have been paying next to nothing for their Man U tickets had to buy tickets to a college football event to see how much they were underpaying. Not to mention pro football. Jesus I couldn't afford them making over 60k/year.
However this is pure stupidity. The game has to have a downloaded patch to get it to work on a modded XBox. This is unlikely to fall in the hands of the average 7 year old by accident.
Did you actually read the entire article? He was saying the PC platform is a commodity, not that they were going to quit selling Macs. If you look at where the revenue of Apple is derived, you'll see branching into devices is significantly more profitable than the PC market and as such that is the future. Making crazy margins off Macs is the past (hopefully).
Amen. That's why I will always admire Vai for his amazing technical ability but so many more guitarists songs/riffs have so much more feeling than his. Hell even the songs that he has tried to make "feel" more like a non-virtuoso song comes across sterile. Satriani is one of my favorites. Although I'll always like Eddie Van Halen, SRV, Clapton, Bettencourt (yes I said it) and even Mustaine too.
7 of the 9 Justices were appointed by REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS.
Maybe people vote for what they actually believe instead of following an indecisive electorate.
Temporarily work 15 hours a day. I own my company and have projects for my clients that must be done. I can however work 0 hours a day if I so decide. I feel finishing what my customers desire is more important than becoming a 5 star manager in FIFA 2005.
Who says? Maybe girls and geeks that aren't good looking don't mix but when you are good looking and make a nice living you'd be surprised at the hotties you can find. Now if my wife would just let me have fun with them life would be interesting indeed. Having a wife actually increases the level of game play since you're not having to go out and try and score (not to say you don't have to try at home but it's not as far to drive). However owning your own company nullifies any game playing time one might have. It's all about balance. Unfortunately I'm at work right now (apparently reading slashdot instead of working) and have been here since 6:30 this morning (it's 9:18pm now).
Cheers.
Take a look pdf
Fed caps at 39.6% I think. Not sure since the GWB taxcut for billionaires.
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//e with a green screen. Then one year later I discovered girls and gaming died that day.
Amazing game. One of my all time favorites. Nothing beat playing on my old Apple
What's 20% of 4 Billion?
800 Million. If he got paid 200 Million he's still 600 Million short. If I were the studio I'd settle for the additional 100 Million and move on down the road.
No shit. What, they couldn't find any cocker spaniel pictures? Some crazy wolf looking dog with its teeth bared really makes me want to bring that one back from the dead.
Now if those lesbian sysadmins were hot with large breasts and loved IT guys for 3 ways I'd be set. Oh yea, nevermind. The wife would never let me do something fun like that.
Bullshit, just use *naturally* supplied energy and put the processing plants where this energy is available. A la, hydroelectric dams (northeast?), solar farms (southwest), wind farms (oklahoma), and do the processing there. We have a choice locally to use *clean* electric for a slightly higher fee, so why not use renewable energy resources to generate ethenol?
Maybe people are over reacting. Solution seems logical to me, any different ones?
Sounds like that might just apply to firearms. Hmm....
That's the thing I'm not atheist. To me atheisim suffers from the same problem religion does, the unexplained. For example do you believe in spirits/ghosts? I do, having seen an indian american ghost as a small child (quite frightening).
There are morons and crazy people everywhere. Every religion is just made up bullshit to make people feel like they matter in the grand scheme of things. One big ego stroke.
Spirituality I don't have a problem with. However, religion is the root of all evil.
Just remember a kid has to be taught to be *good*, that is the purpose of societies norms & mores (religion serves this purpose too).